solemnness , also: solemness old use

- the commercial type solemnness starts to sound in Guillermo's voice.

We wanted to make sure that the solemnness, the seriousness of the occasion, came through.”

The cleanly defined lines of his face were still impassive, but there was a certain solemnness about his eyes.

The solemnness of the occasion mixed with the realization of the man's mistake bubbled up inside me and came out as laughter.

It was very necessary to board the ship-Elder Zaccur Barstow had told them with deep solemnness what lay in store for them if they failed to board.

The shepherds of Bethlehem and the Roman soldiers in armor seem to take on greater solemnness as the biblical tableaus pass by and the majority of the penitents approach in the pageant's second half.

Early reviews have been largely positive; in the view of the Los Angeles architect Thom Mayne, who consulted briefly on the project, the final product “has a solemnness, a simplicity and an otherness which is absolutely perfect.”

Vic may seem successful and manly, but he knows he has "private, unlovable eccentricities which he kept hidden and which threatened to surface - a rigid solemnness, a secret delight in poor personal hygiene, a corny sense of humor, an obsession with homonyms."

And in one of the most memorable speeches in Congress in the last quarter century, Representative Barbara Jordan, then a freshman Democrat from Texas, spoke of "the solemnness that I feel right now" and added: "My faith in the Constitution is whole.

If anyone wants to make a Joy Division story that's all Anton Corbijn photography and great solemnness, or tell the Factory story with no hash and due weight given to Guy Debord, Winterbottom isn't going to cry foul. 3. It's Fellini!